The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-13

drowned and two or three others are
missing. The bodies Of Joseph New
man, George Cartright, G. ii. Person
and two unknown men have been re.
covered.
The st. James and Eastern Hotels,
in Dunkirk, New York, were burned
on the evening Of the 4th. Loss, $751;
coo. There is no insurance OF the
st. James Hotel, while that on tue
Eastern Hotel is small. The New Era
Flour Mills, in Nashville, were burned
on the morning of the 9th. Loss, $40
600; insurance, $32, 900. The w. f.
Washburne Brass and Iron Works, in
Yonkers, New York, was damaged by
fire on the morning of the 9th, to the
extent of $4,000.
The prairie fire which ragged rear
Manhattan, Illinois, on the 4th, was
got under control, but broke out afresb
in another place, and swept over a
thousand acres. One house was de-
stroyed. ''In some places the flame
was from twenty to thirty feet high,
and the running blaze an average of
ten feet high. The fire went faster
than a nan could run" Everybody
turned out to fight the fire, which was
finally subdued near Matteson.
Near Etna, Penna., on the evening
of the 4th, Mrs. Owen Hade left her
four little children in the house while
she took her husbands supper to him
at a furnace, about a mile distant. Dur
ing her absence the eldest child. Ed
ward, aged s years, took the oil a
and poured the fluid in the stove, as he
had often seen his mother doing when
she started q fire." An explosion fol-
lowed, and the four children were cov-
cred with the burning oil. The neigh
bors rushed in and extinguithed the
flames, but the youngest child, aged 16
months, died in a short time, and the
other three are not expected to re-
cover.
Near indianapolis, recently, John
VoImor arranged a device by which,
whenever a thief entered his poultry
yard, a weight would drop upon Vol
mar. On the evening of the Sd, he was
awakened by the alarm, and, when the
thief refused to stop, fred at the fugi-
tive. The latter vas found to be a
woman, mined Sarah OFT. The whole
load of shot entered her body.
AS a nlne-year old boy was de-
scending a fire escape on the tenement
house No. Fl Spring street, New
York, on the morning of the 9Th, he
fell to the pavement and received in
juries which, it is thought will prove
fatal. The police learned that Saverlo
Vicino and Deborah Basilonia, the
parents of the boy, always locked him
in the ~fourth-story room, where they
lived, when they went to work, at . or
6 O'Clock in the morning, AMI left him
without food. When the boy awoke
on the morning of tie 9TH, his parents
had gone out, and he had nothing to
eat for 90 hours Hunger impelled
him TO try to make his way TO the
street, in the hope Of finding some
scraps of food.
While William Wick. 20 years old,
was running a saw in Burket's mill,
near Altoona, Penna., on the 9th, the
saw caught his suspenders and drew
him into its teeth, cutting him in
twain.
"A despatch from Tucson, Arizona
| Territory, says advices from Janos,
| Chihuahua, Mexico, dated July 26th,
say the reports sent out from Ell Paso
of a band of Apaches d~epredating
that region are not true. There has
not been a single Apache seen in the
| vicinity since Geronimo's band sur
rendered to General Miles, nearly a
year ago. There is an organized band
| of Mexican outlaws, with some Amerl-
| cans, who scour the country, stealing
and numbering, but they are not In
dams.
Additional reports regarding the
cyclone at Millbrook, Kansas, say that
four people were killed, instead OF one
as at first reported. in addition to the
destruction OF Millbrook, the towns of
| Hill City and PIainville also suffered
seriously.
"A heavy storm passed over Frank
lin, Penna., on the evening OF the 9th,
i%nundatlng the western part of the
city. A $4,000 barrel tank of oil, be-
longing to the Eclipse Oil Company, was
fired by a fash OF lightning, causing a
loss of $40, 900. Hugh Porter, a ire
man, was fatally injured by being acct
| dentally hit on the head by a hose
wrench. James Garfield and John
King were fatally burned, and several
others were seriously Injured.
captain Richard Woolfalk, a we'll
known farmer, about twelve miles
from Macon, Georgia, his wife, six
children and Mrs. West. an aunt of
Mrs. Woolfalk, were found murdered
in the house on the morning of the 9TH,
having been knocked in the head and
their Threats cut. Thomas G. Wool
falk, son of Captain Woolfalk by his
first wife, WAS arrested, and the Cor
oner's jury found a verdict of murder
against him. His motive was said to
be the desire to gain possession of his
fathers property for himself and two
sisters, children of the 1rst wife.
"A despatch from Arkansas City,
Arkansas, says: W. G.. Lasley, who in
November assassinated Boyd Smith, a
planter, because of trouble about
Smiths wife, and who on tho 9th, was
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to 81 years impris-
onment, committed suicide on the 9th,
by taking morphine.
There was a white frost in the
vicinity of Wellsvllle, New York, on
the morning of the 7th, and the Their
mometer registered about forty degrees
above zero.
"A wall, six feet high. at the edge
of the sidewalk on Central avenue, at
the Cathedral property, in Cincinnati,
was pushed over upon the sidewalk on
the 9Th by a quantity of sand piled
against it. II. w. Young, Frederick
VESSEL sud Josie Corcoran, who were
passing at the time, were seriously IN
jured, the last named probably fatally.
"A despatch from C~heboygan,
Michigan, says that village is en-
veloped IN dense smoke from free
which are destroying much valuable
timber IN that vicinity. The drouth in
that section has been protracted, and
all kinds of vegetation has been